Brightly Coloured Flower Grown From A Tuber

• any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and Colombia

• the wood of an African obeche tree; used especially for veneering

• large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood

• handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties

• exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees

• a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape

• medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America